"auf frischer Tat" meaning in German

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      "expansion": "auf frischer Tat",
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  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The police caught the pickpocket in the act.",
          "text": "Die Polizei erwischte den Taschendieb auf frischer Tat.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2022 December 11, Eric Bonse, “Geld aus Katar? Kaili unter Verdacht: Schnelles Ende einer Karriere”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN",
          "text": "In Kailis Wohnung fanden die Ermittler belgischen Medienberichten zufolge Taschen voller Bargeld. Le Soir schrieb, die 44-Jährige sei auf frischer Tat erwischt worden.",
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      "glosses": [
        "in the act, red-handed"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "in the act",
          "in the act"
        ],
        [
          "red-handed",
          "red-handed"
        ]
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "auf frischer Tat"
}

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      "expansion": "auf frischer Tat",
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  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The police caught the pickpocket in the act.",
          "text": "Die Polizei erwischte den Taschendieb auf frischer Tat.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2022 December 11, Eric Bonse, “Geld aus Katar? Kaili unter Verdacht: Schnelles Ende einer Karriere”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN",
          "text": "In Kailis Wohnung fanden die Ermittler belgischen Medienberichten zufolge Taschen voller Bargeld. Le Soir schrieb, die 44-Jährige sei auf frischer Tat erwischt worden.",
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      "glosses": [
        "in the act, red-handed"
      ],
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          "red-handed"
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  "word": "auf frischer Tat"
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